Battle Chasers: Nightwar Free Download

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Battle Chasers: Nightwar Free Download Unfitgirl Battle Chasers: Nightwar pays homage to and builds on old school, anime-inspired JRPGs in the same way Pillars of Eternity did for the top-down isometric Infinity engine games of the ‘90s. There are a lot of familiar ideas in its turn-based combat and diverse, beautifully drawn overworld, but enough fresh and modern ideas are sprinkled in to keep things feeling up to date and interesting. The environments and characters of Battle Chasers would fit in right alongside classic fantasy anime like Record of Lodoss War and Slayers. Each party member, enemy, and shopkeeper presents a strong silhouette, vibrant colors, and lots of attention to small details. From the troubled, metallic golem Calibretto to the eager and upbeat brawler Gully, nearly everyone with a speaking part is overflowing with personality and ably voiced – though some, like Red Monika and the witch Destra have distractingly eye-roll worthy wardrobes that look like they came from a 16-year-old boy’s anime fan art page. Each of the eight major dungeons and dozens of smaller exploration areas has a distinct aesthetic, prettied up by great environmental lighting, thematic music, and lots of little moving parts that help them come alive. Overcharge adds an interesting tactical layer to action choices. Unfitgirl.COM SEXY GAMES

Mechanically, the influence from late ‘90s Final Fantasy and its ilk is clear, though with enough surprises and new ideas to let it sidestep a lot of retro JRPG problems. Combat revolves around the concept of overcharge, a resource that is generated by weaker attacks and sits on top of your mana bar. It can be used in place of mana, and certain abilities reward you for spending a lot of overcharge at once. It adds an interesting tactical layer to action choices and resource management, cleverly integrating a concept from action RPGs like Diablo into a turn-based system. You have to know when to be conservative and build up overcharge before cutting loose, and when to pull out the stops and burn through your mana to get the job done. Random battles are thankfully absent, with enemy encounters taking place at clearly-marked nodes on the overworld map. Enemy groups in dungeons are represented by a character model that moves around and can be avoided if desired. You can’t really bypass combat entirely, but it’s rare to be surprised by a foe you’re not expecting. And defeated encounters disappear from the environment, so you won’t be stuck in an endless stream of combats when you’re trying to solve a puzzle.

Just one more fight!

RPG veterans should skip Normal difficulty and go straight to Heroic. Encounters reset when you rest at an inn, which I often found necessary since the middle act tends to throw you into dungeons you’re not yet the appropriate level for if you just take the shortest path from A to B. The necessity of grinding for levels in between story beats isn’t obnoxious, but it is one of the only somewhat outdated-feeling elements carried over from classic JRPGs. Most of the time, there are enough optional bosses and side areas with XP to be earned that you’re not simply killing random monsters for hours on end, anyway. And each dungeon does have an easy mode if you just want to get on with it – it’s actually called “Normal,” but I found it to be so unchallenging as to make combat feel pointless, and treated the “Heroic” difficulty as the default. I suspect most RPG veterans will find this to be true. There’s also an unlockable Legendary mode for each that resets the entire area if you die, if you’re a real glutton for punishment. The options to fill your time outside of dungeons and leveling are admirably abundant. One NPC will present you with Hunts, optional bosses that must be tracked down and defeated for significant rewards. An arena in one of the early areas allows you to challenge waves of increasingly difficult enemies to earn currency that unlocks some of the best items available. New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe Switch NSP 

There’s also a fully-featured crafting and enchanting system, allowing you to further bolster and customize your party’s abilities on top of the Perk points they earn from leveling up. Add in the search for each character’s legendary weapon, a simple but entertaining fishing minigame, and several secrets that can be found by backtracking and making clever use of text clues you’ll find throughout the main story, and it’s the type of RPG in which you can spend almost half your time on activities not related to strict, linear progression. What initially seems like a fairly conventional, 40ish-hour fantasy stock plot of hunting down a big, bad magic guy surprised me with some twists and nuance in the final act. However, my biggest criticism, and where Battle Chasers falls flattest compared to its genre influences, is that there are very few moments that present emotional stakes for any of the main heroes. The most you ever even see them interact is in bits of idle banter while resting at an inn. The few character-specific side quests rarely force anyone to change or make an interesting choice, there are no melodramatic anime love triangles, and hints dropped about certain characters’ pasts never pay off. All the party members are likable and memorable, but most are fairly two-dimensional and they don’t really grow, evolve, or face personal adversity throughout this tale.

Perfect for on the go

That motivation to keep going is key, too, because Nightwar also has a lot of grinding. One of the less-exciting holdouts of its JRPG heritage is in the game’s difficulty scaling over time. Each playable character has their own level and skill tree, and they are only given experience points when directly involved in battle. Since the player’s squad can only fit three characters at any point, I found myself frequently grinding for experience on a less-used character in order to get them back up to the level of my more active party members. Nightwar pushes into a system more modern (and more convenient) with its dungeons. The game has a number of optional and core-path dungeons that, upon initial completion, can be re-entered with a randomized room layout. It’s not a complete randomization — you will still experience the same overall rooms — but puzzles might be different and room exits and entrances will be shuffled. It helps avoid some the tedium of re-doing each dungeon, though, inevitably, seeing the same four or five puzzles still gets a bit boring. Other than dungeons, there are a multitude of other activities that Nightwar offers, from fishing minigames to specialized hunts (where you are tasked with finding and killing a specific, unique monster) to simple world exploration and treasure hunting. The heart of the game though, is in the combat system. Need For Speed 2 Shift Unleashed 

And what a combat system it is. Battle Chasers: Nightwar’s battle system is built on the same foundations as any number of classic JRPGs, yes — but what it does with that system is unlike almost any game I’ve seen before. The simple number of possible attacks, skills, perks, status effects and combinations therein make each battle a unique experience, each a small minigame unto itself. Battles in Nightwar are always conducted between your three party members and one to three enemies. Characters have both a health gauge and a mana gauge, which is fairly standard for the genre, but there are two other bars to keep an eye on: the overcharge gauge and the burst gauge. Overcharge is built when certain standard attacks (that is, attacks that don’t use mana) land successful hits. Overcharge is then added to the mana gauge, giving the character a temporary extra mana reserve. Overcharge also becomes a special resource that can be tapped into by certain character abilities — for example, the swordsman Garrison’s Warblade ability drains the entire overcharge stack and adds its amount to the damage of Warblade. Having more overcharge means dealing more damage. Burst, on the other hand, is built slowly from turn to turn.

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It’s shared throughout your party, and when it reaches a charge level (one, two or three, depending on your progress in the story) it can be used by any player character to discharge a powerful burst ability, free of any other cost. Burst abilities, due to their rarity and power, are something akin to a summon in the Final Fantasy series, complete with their own unique, short animations. Burst and Overcharge, especially when coupled with Nightwar’s dizzying array of status effects and possible actions during a battle, make each encounter into a juggling act. Perform a regular attack to build Overcharge, spend Overcharge on a damaging ability, heal up with mana, perform another regular attack to refill the mana bar with Overcharge, spend a Burst point on a mass-heal, and so on. It’s a system that seems absolutely obtuse when unfamiliar, but easily learnable when playing. To that end, no small praise must be heaped on Battle Chasers: Nightwar’s progressive tutorialization. All those paragraphs of complicated battle instruction I just listed out are given to the player slowly, but not slow enough that battles ever seem boring. Nightwar introduces each new mechanic contextually within the story and gives players enough time to understand each quirk, starting small and then challenging their prowess with a particularly difficult boss battle. Necromunda: Hired Gun

The first few hours are well-tuned enough that I didn’t find myself grinding overly often. Fighting the enemies in each dungeon gave my characters enough experience to not worry about the boss at the end. However, when new player characters started to be introduced, and my familiar party balance was rocked by a new character’s specific nuances, things got more complicated. As mentioned before, the more fun juggling act of the combat is somewhat frustrated by the less fun juggling act of constantly grinding for experience on weaker characters. Additionally, Nightwar makes some strange balance decisions that weren’t always to my taste. The game emphasizes team synergy, and that means that keeping your entire team alive drastically improves your chance at survival. But having relatively few effective methods of healing your entire team at once often led to disastrous attempts to spread heals between multiple characters, which meant losing out on valuable opportunities to harm my opponents. These balance issues didn’t ruin the otherwise exhilarating combat for me, but there were moments where they stuck out. Where Battle Chasers: Nightwar’s fights kept me engaged, its story is merely acceptable, nothing groundbreaking. The plot is mostly concerned with stopping an evil necromancer from… doing evil necromancer things.

The strongest aspects of the narrative draw on character relationships between the protagonists, established mostly in the opening act of the game. For a game based on a pre-existing property, it doesn’t feel too overwhelming to jump into. The main crew are close enough to existing character tropes to feel slightly familiar to a new player, but have enough twists on the formula to warrant further interest. While there isn’t much in the way of strong character arcs, even without reading the comic I found these characters interesting and well-written. Many of my favorite sequences in Nightwar were the character interactions that you get when resting at an inn — a short conversation between two or more party members that gives you a glance at their internal chemistry. The femme fatale assassin Red Monika has a heart-to-heart with young heroine Gully, and they end up having a fun night out together. Or the polite war-machine Calibretto discusses with the gruff swordsman Garrison how he worries that the man is too cavalier with caring for Gully. Moments like this take a game that’s primarily concerned with fighting and complex mechanics, and pull it back down to a heartfelt character level view.

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